GHV2 (Limited Edition) [Limited Edition]

Product Description
Limited edition features different packaging; a digipak wrapped in coloured film laminate over stiff chip board plus a twenty-page colour booklet with eight-page folder. Booklet printed on matte art paper.

Tracks:

Deeper And Deeper
Erotica
Human Nature
Secret
Don't Cry For Me Argentina
Bedtime Story
The Power Of Goodbye
Beautiful Stranger
Frozen
Take A Bow
Ray Of Light
Don't Tell Me
What It Feels Like For A Girl
Drowned World/Substitute For Love
Music

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So there's this pop singer... you may have heard of her? Madonna, she's called, and the word is that she's basically all image; she went through a put-your-hands-all-over-my-body phase, then she got spiritual, and then she started wearing cowboy hats. Between all the gossip columns and photo shoots, though, she's left an unmatched trail of devastatingly wonderful singles--roaring dance records, tender ballads, and a curious combination of the two that is her personal specialty ("Secret" and "Ray of Light"). How many artists' best-of-the-second-decade collections crowd out legitimate hits? ("American Pie," anyone? "This Used to Be My Playground"?) Unlike 1990's Immaculate Collection, GHV2 doesn't have any new material; "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina," from Evita, and the glorious '60s pastiche "Beautiful Stranger" are the only songs that haven't appeared on a Madonna album before. But it compresses her past 10 years worth of records into an hour of one peak after another. --Douglas Wolk

Customer Reviews:

The best of the best.......2007-07-03

If you want the 90's hits of madonna you must have this in your own collection. I love it

Completes the greatest hits collection.......2007-05-15

if you only want 2 of Madonna's cd's, get this and the immaculate collection and you will then have all of the best known hits on those cd's.

Not so great for Madonna's fans.......2007-02-28

First of all, I love this CD. It is a great collection for Madonna's 1990-2000's career.
However, I was a bit disappointed since it adds nothing special. That is there are no new songs, or special mix.

If you are looking for Madonna's hit songs in one CD, this is a great
album. However, if you are huge fan of Madonna and already having all the CDs of her, there is really nothing special about this CD.

Moreover, many great songs are not included.

Madonna GHV2.......2007-02-16

This cd is really very good.
The only down sides are that some of her songs from this period are missing, some edited, and no new songs were added.
Otherwise, it is fantastic,a great buy, and a must have for any Madonna fan.

Impressive.

I'm feelin these.......2006-11-18

I won't say to everybody this greatest hits is highly recommended. Being that I never heard all of her albums, so a true fan may feel like some songs is missin'. However for me, who is just really startin to seriously get into pop is somewhat satisfied with these and this is a 5 star collection to me. Some of the tracks I love, a couple I don't like at all and the rest I just like.
My favorite ones are in order;
Erotica
Ray of Light
Beautiful Stranger
The power of goodbye
Deeper and Deeper
The prodution is excellent and I love the vocals. If your new to Madonna, my opinion would be to start here. But a true fan can give me lessons.

Average customer rating:

THE NEXT TEN YEARS!
Wow
This Music makes the people come together
this album rocks JUST THE WAY IT IS
Good Choice for the Maddy fan

GHV2 (Limited Edition)
Madonna
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005T5VE
Release Date: 2001-12-11

Tracks:

Deeper And Deeper
Erotica
Human Nature
Secret
Don't Cry For Me Argentina
Bedtime Story
The Power Of Goodbye
Beautiful Stranger
Frozen
Take A Bow
Ray Of Light
Don't Tell Me
What It Feels Like For A Girl
Drowned World/Substitute For Love
Music

Album Description

Limited edition features different packaging; a digipak wrapped in coloured film laminate over stiff chip board plus a twenty-page colour booklet with eight-page folder. Booklet printed on matte art paper.

Customer Reviews:

THE NEXT TEN YEARS!.......2005-11-12

while GHV2 is not comparable to Immaculate Collection (and you know why!), this second greatest hits of the one and only madonna is a testament to her great musicality as when she reigned in the 80's as queen of pop and braving the obstacles she encountered in the 90's. very few artists could rack up the impressive number of singles she has released. in the 90's, things have changed. her musical direction became vast and more creative, sacrificing "dough" to acheive her unlimited, boundless imagination.

GHV2 consisted of tracks from different albums, representing different artistic levels and undertakings: erotica, bedtime stories, evita, ray of light, music, plus singles from soundtracks and compilations.

all said, GHV2 represents the more mature, more artistic and more creative part of madonna. never afraid to take risks, she is willing to sacrifice whatever earnings in pursuit of elevating pop to the higher level.

sure, Immaculate Concpetion displayed what she could do with great pop songs, but ultimately, GHV2 displayed that she could do more!

long live the queen!

Wow.......2005-08-01

This packiage is needed! Because the CD is such a good one it deserves this package!

This Music makes the people come together .......2005-04-06

Fifteen songs... A decade. There were a few songs from this album that Madonna had missed out, such as: "American Pie" and "Nothing Really Matters" etc... Please note that songs like "Rain", "I'll Remember" and "You'll See" can be found on the ballad compilation "Something To Remember". Madonna's first greatest hits compilation "The Immaculate Collection" is also available and includes such hits as "Crazy For You", "Lucky Star", "Vogue" and "Holiday" plus more. These compilations are also worth buying and getting if you are a real, die-hard Madonna fan.

Well... I feel like getting up out of my chair and dancing to some Madonna all of the time, so this Greatest Hits collection was no exception to pass up on! It does exactly what it says on the front sticker: (plays) the best songs of a decade. So if you really are a Madonna fan (...) and love her last songs of a decade, go out and buy this! Some of the songs are edited, like on her first greatest hits compilation, but that doesn't effect the or any qualities of this disc. "Music Makes The People Come Together" -- let's hope for a box set or a third Greatest Hits collection from Madonna. This collection includes no songs from the warner bros./maverick album "American Life".

01 Deeper And Deeper (10/10)
(US: #7) (17 weeks spent on Billboard Charts)
(UK: #6) (9 weeks spent on UK Top 75)
02 Erotica (10/10)
(US: #3) (18 weeks spent on Billboard Charts)
(UK: #3) (8 weeks spent on UK Top 75)
03 Human Nature (10/10)
(US: #46) (15 weeks spent on Billboard Charts)
(UK: #8) (5 weeks spent on UK Top 75)
04 Secret (10/10)
(US: #3) (22 weeks spent on Billboard Charts)
(UK: #5) (9 weeks spent on UK Top 75)
05 Don't Cry For Me Argentina (10/10)
(US: #8) (Weeks unknown)
(UK: #3) (12 weeks spent on UK Top 75)
06 Bedtime Story (10/10)
(US: #42) (7 weeks spent on Billboard Charts)
(UK: #4) (9 weeks spent on UK Top 75) (1 re-issue)
07 The Power Of Good-Bye (10/10)
(US: #11) (19 weeks spent on Billboard Charts)
(UK: #6) (9 weeks spent on UK Top 75)
("The Power Of Good-Bye" was also teamed together with "Little Star")
08 Beautiful Stranger (10/10)
(US: #19) (Weeks unknown)
(UK: #2) (16 weeks spent on UK Top 75)
("Beautiful Stranger" (in the US) could only chart due to its airplay on the radio)
09 Frozen (10/10)
(US: #2) (20 weeks on Billboard Charts)
(UK: #1) (13 weeks on UK Top 75)
10 Take A Bow (10/10)
(US: #1) (30 weeks on Billboard Charts)
(UK: #16) (9 weeks on UK Top 75)
("Take A Bow" was Madonna's lowest in the UK, but highest in the US!)
11 Ray Of Light (10/10)
(US: #5) (20 weeks on Billboard Charts)
(UK: #2) (10 weeks on UK Top 75) (1 re-issue)
12 Don't Tell Me (10/10)
(US: #4) (21 weeks on Billboard Charts)
(UK: #4) (10 weeks on UK Top 75)
("Don't Tell Me" is my favourite Madonna song!)
13 What It Feels Like For A Girl (10/10)
(US: #23) (10 weeks on Billboard Charts)
(UK: #7) (11 weeks on UK Top 75) (1 re-issue)
14 Drowned World/Substitute For Love (10/10)
(US: Only a single outside of the US)
(UK: #10) (5 weeks on UK Top 75)
15 Music (10/10)
(US: #1) (24 weeks on Billboard Charts)
(UK: #1) (23 weeks on UK Top 75)

Madonna is one of the few music acts to have had this much success on the Charts for this long. (22 year) She also had hits from her later album "American Life" and a lot of previous hits. Pick up this to get more of Madonna. Hits taken from the albums "Erotica", "Bedtime Stories", "Ray Of Light" and "Music". "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" from the music motion picture "Evita". "Beautiful Stranger" from the music motion picture "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me". Please note that the song "Human Nature" is edited. It takes away the line: "I'm not your bitch, don't hang your s**t on me" and replaces it with "I'm not sorry, it's Human Nature".

Overall Score: 150/150

This is one of the few albums I have where I have or will give every song 10/10. Great album! Also buy previous albums and later effort "American Life". This particular limited edition is for the die-hard Madonna fan or collector. It features exclusive limited packaging which is lovely to touch -- I love the feel of it! It includes extra pages and photos plus the CD is attached to the book which I thought was a good idea. (There is a slip case at the end of the book which you will find the CD in.) The CD has a different artwork -- A beautiful picture disc of Madonna. Buy it!

this album rocks JUST THE WAY IT IS.......2004-10-23

In terms of compilation albums, this is the one that's buzzing in my CD player more than other ones (even the Immaculate Collection!). And I stand by the statement that this album is perfectly sublime JUST THE WAY IT IS. To me, each track is in itself a definitive Madonna masterpiece WITHOUT QUESTION. I think the best way to truly express how great this compilation really is is to write something about each track . . .

DEEPER AND DEEPER
I have to dance every SINGLE time I hear this song! This song NEEDED to be included on GHV2.

EROTICA
my personal favorite- a haunting expression of some of the darkest and most primal of sexual fantasies (S&M, for example). anyone who is familiar with this song and the album can appreciate the name i put on this review, then. the modern sounding hiphop beat and house-inspired, aloof background music make this a musical experience TRULY like no other. again, GHV2 did justice.

HUMAN NATURE
ultimately not a big hit on the charts, but a message that got everyone's attention- "i do what i do and if you don't like it, i won't stop, i could care less what you think." GHV2 met this one halfway by including it but as a dumbed down version with no profanity

SECRET
Madonna's hippest R&B tune ever. i think that when she released this along with the album Bedtime stories back in '94, she effectively communicated that she could still get down with the getdown.

DON'T CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA
Who doesn't know this song, or at least the fact that Madonna sings it? If this song had not made it into the collection, then that would have been the worst-case scenario!

BEDTIME STORY
i love this song, it is just so mindblowing and ethereal with its trance-house themed sound.

THE POWER OF GOODBYE
A beautiful ballad from the Ray of Light album. 'Nuff said.

BEAUTIFUL STRANGER
Madonna closed the door on the nineties with this unusually rich-sounding dance track from the second Austin Powers movie. An excellent note to end the nineties on.

FROZEN
The most beautiful ballad on the Ray of Light album and one of her best by far.

TAKE A BOW
Madonna's biggest hit ever, this also was a necessity for inclusion on GHV2. It's from Bedtime Stories, and it was written by Babyface, and he never goes wrong, as vividly proven in how beautiful this R&B song sounds.

RAY OF LIGHT
I love the video for this song, which made me love the song itself even more. I love how it was Madonna's return to the pop world, back in top form again!

DON'T TELL ME
A kickin' track from 2000's Music album which is characterized with unbeatable pop lyrics and a catchy hiphop sounding backbeat (check out this video too, which features M's turn as a dust covered cowgirl).

WHAT IT FEELS LIKE FOR A GIRL
Madonna's second best vocal work in a song (top billing goes to Don't Cry For me Argentina). It is a beautiful ballad from Music that goes against society's construct of the ideal female.

DROWNED WORLD/SUBSTITUTE FOR LOVE
I thought this one was some kind of slowed-down, rock-and-roll ballad, and then watching the video opened my eyes to what message Madonna was really sending about herself and the stress of celebrity. Not released in the United States, but still deserving of its GHV2 slot (you'll really think so if you watch the video).

MUSIC
Madonna did it AGAIN with this electronica-laden dance track extraordinaire. She opened a new decade, a new century, and a new millenium with a pulsating, high-energy dance single that was her first to go #1 in years. Yes, she does still got it.

Now you can see why these songs are most deserving of making up Madonna's second Greatest Hits compilation. Some may point out that such #1's as "I'll Remember" and "This Used to Be My Playground" are not up there and say they should have been put up there. But those two songs, while they did chart extremely well, are just not ones that automatically come to mind with 1990s and 21st century Madonna. And another thing: this album just rocks on the weight of the featured songs. Therefore there didn't need to be any new material featured on the album; people bought it so that they would be able to listen to classic Madonna whenever they wanted, not listen to new material.

Good Choice for the Maddy fan.......2003-07-16

As other reviewers have noted, it doesn't differ in musical content from the regular version, but does offer snazzier packaging: a hard cover encloses the booklet and disc, the booklet offers slightly different artwork (mostly more photographs)and the disc itself has different artwork. This is a good version for the dyed in the wool Madonna fan, and the collection of songs is really a must have in any form.